The future of a village hall has been secured after councillors agreed to lease it to a community group.<\/p>\n
Leeds City Council has approved a Community Asset Transfer for Greenacre Hall in Rawdon.<\/p>\n
It means the building will be officially taken over by Aireborough Voluntary Services to the Elderly with Disabilities (AVSED).<\/p>\n
The group will run social groups, fitness classes and dementia support for people in Rawdon, Guiseley and Yeadon under a 25-lease.<\/p>\n
A council report said the group first moved into the hall on New Road Side as a tenant in 2023.<\/p>\n
It said: “This created a functioning office space for their staff and volunteer team and increased capacity for groups and services, resulting in membership doubling over the last couple of years.<\/p>\n
“They currently have over 800 members and offer health and social well-being services to over 300 residents every week, providing preventative health and community-focused well-being services.”<\/p>\n
The asset transfer was agreed by the council’s executive board after AVSED submitted a business plan for the building, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n The hall was previously leased to Greenacre Community Hall Association, a charity which was wound up due to a lack of people on its trust board.<\/p>\n AVSED drew up a five-year refurbishment plan for the building, which was previously used as a dance hall and nursery.<\/p>\n The report said: “Greenacre Hall is an ageing building that has seen limited investment over recent years.<\/p>\n “Measures that have been identified include insulation, double glazing, LED lighting and a replacement heating system.”<\/p>\n The report said an ageing population meant there was a growing need for elderly support services.<\/p>\n It said: “AVSED has begun planning for this eventuality with plans to introduce a new dementia service, food provision and preventative health initiatives.”<\/p>\n Listen to highlights from West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds<\/a>, catch up with the latest episode of Look North<\/a>.<\/p>\n Related internet links<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The future of a village hall has been secured after councillors agreed to lease it to a community…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[209787,49,48,209791,209793,209788,84,209786,146223,209789,209792,209790],"class_list":["post-536259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-aireborough-voluntary-services","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-community-asset-transfer","tag-community-group","tag-greenacre-community-hall-association","tag-health","tag-leeds-city-council","tag-local-democracy-reporting-service","tag-preventative-health","tag-rawdon","tag-village-hall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}